Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Construction Materials Prices Up 0.4% in February Construction input prices expanded 0.4% in February compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data released...
Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Associated Builders and Contractors today announced the winners of its annual, national Construction Workforce Awards, which includes Craft Instructor of the Year, Craft Professional of the Year and Young Professional of the Year. The winners were announced March 15...
Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Associated Builders and Contractors today announced award winners in Excellence in Construction;® Safety Excellence; Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Excellence and Contractor of the Year. The winners were announced and honored March 16 during ABC Convention 2023 at...
Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Associated Builders and Contractors today released its fifth annual Top Performers publication, which lists its contractor members that build the country’s most enduring, innovative, high-quality construction projects, ranked by work hours. The No. 1 2023 ABC Top...
Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
“The coalition is disappointed that yet another effort by the Biden administration is pushing inflationary PLA schemes on federally assisted projects that may exacerbate the construction industry’s skilled labor shortage of more than half a million,” said Ben Brubeck,...
Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
A diverse group of 17 construction and business associations today urged the U.S. Department of Commerce to ensure taxpayer investments in the semiconductor industry are not needlessly constrained by anti-competitive and inflationary project labor agreement schemes...
Mar 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Associated Builders and Contractors member Roy Heim, president of Heim Construction Co. Inc., Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, today testified before theU.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee during the hearing “From Nothing to Something: The Story of the...
Mar 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement ahead of congressional Democrats’ reintroduction of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which is set for Feb. 28. Among its many harmful provisions, the PRO Act would violate workers’...
Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
A Notice of Funding Opportunity for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s fiscal year 2023 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity grant program is set to close for applications on Feb. 28. The RAISE grant program provides federal...
Feb 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
The ABC-led Coalition for a Democratic Workplace filed an amicus brief in a case against Starbucks that is currently before the National Labor Relations Board, condemning the NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s efforts to eliminate employer speech rights in union...
